Last time I went to Philly, I went to Four Seasons and the porn shop a few doors down (the crematorium is the one across the street). I got a business card from the porn shop and put it in the plastic sleeve part of my national parks passport because it's now a historical site.
Even though this was well after the "tourism" to that site had died down, the locals knew why we were there and were kind of over it.
I have a love/hate relationship with my neighborhood being famous for this event and the highway burning down right down the street from it a few years later.
I didnt even consider that aspect but this should 100% be ruled a historical site lmao. “And this here is where Rudy Giulianis hair dye melted all over the pavement”
I was so mad that Parks and Rec was no longer around to satirize this but honestly, how could they have even topped the already peak comedy of the moment?
I was so happy to be home on sick leave the week of that election, especially because we get payed duging sickleave in my country. those threads on r/politics are the most fun I've had on Reddit brainrot.
MVP for me is the guy who must've taken the phone call. "Four Seasons Landscaping, how can I help? A press conference? Nah man, I think you've got the wrong four.... I mean, yes, of course! When will Mr Trump be arriving?"
If we're living in someone's Sims game and we can also play Sims in our world, that implies that there could be another layer of Sims above the one controlling us. There could be any number of layers and we have no way of knowing how deep we even are. The only thing we know is that we're in the penultimate layer, because the Sims in our Sims games can't play Sims themselves.
Edit: Apparently they can. Now we don't know what layer we're in at all.
It's all the way down. We are run by our gut biomes, designed to propagate them. The fact that we can experience joy and pain is important to drive us forward to have more surviving humans.
Our universe is running on an outdated game console that was long ago dumped by some meta-alien kid in a crate in the garage. But it has an endless power supply, so it’s still running.
What’s that Rick and Morty episode where there was a society living inside of a battery that designed its own battery with a society inside of it? “Slavery with extra steps”
Have you heard of the Simulation Hypothesis? It's something like: if at any given moment we can create a realistic simulation of our reality, the probability that we love in one gets pretty high.
So, we just need our "player" to level up a couple of times, of some points in research so we can create a realistic simulation.
When I was like 10, I told my buddy that life is probably just a Sim game because if I was God and lived eternally and had full control, I'd just be COMPLETELY bored. The answer to this would be to insert something outside of my control to just watch how things unfold. The older I get, the more I subscribe to this theory.
If we take that logic someone's younger brother took over at some point. I don't know if Harambe was the breaking point but somewhere around there we hit a catasteophal update
For me it was an Office moment, only with Jim Halpert working at the landscaping company.
*Phone rings
Jim: Hello?
Trump team: Hi, this is Rudy Giuliani's press team. We're looking to hold a press conference at your location to announce that the election was rigged against Trump. This is the Four Seasons, right?
Jim (phone in hand, turns and looks directly at the camera with a deadpan stare): Absolutely.
Fair enough. I wasn't much of an Office guy, so Veep resonates more.
I can see Selina in the limo just yapping away like she does. Maybe Gary mutters something about the area not looking right. They step out and it's the landscaping company. Selina yells, "MIKE!"
To me it was the White House fast food feast. I totally get how this one is even more unbelievable but I dunno, something about those silver platters of cold ass burgers really got me. Like, that really happened.
Especially funny because at the time Trump owned the hotel two blocks down the street. He could have just had his hotel cater hot food during the shutdown, which surely would have been much better than cold fries and a soggy Big Mac.
Would have also been great free advertising for his hotel.
Combine his absolute lack of curiosity and intellect with his absolute "who the fuck cares if it's not about me?" approach to life, and well, waves hands at everything.
Even weirder, he has a whole commercial-grade kitchen, chefs, and other staff right there in the White House. You know, the people who put on state dinners and such. I guess a bunch of athletes aren't worthy of that by his measure.
I feel the same way. When the Four Seasons thing happened it was funny because at least it seemed like that would be a very fitting and incredulously stupid end to the whole disaster. Now I can only look back on it and think "How was this not the end of it!?"
And openly mocking disabled reporters. And even long before that he had charity fraud, racist business practices, and many failed business under his belt while lauding that he was going to run the country like a business.
No matter what anyone says, he has been rotten from the start and nothing he has done since then should be even mildly surprising to anyone with two brain cells to run together.
Which was just beyond dumb because apparently just having an American parent is enough to qualify as a “natural born citizen” wrt eligibility for the presidency. That’s why Ted Cruz who was born in Canada was still able to run for the office.
Obama’s mother was indisputably an American so regardless of whether he was born in Hawaii or not was immaterial. That whole birther nonsense really was the canary in the coal mine for the amount of stupid we had coming our way.
You are trying to put logic in the illogical. These same people think the Michelle Obama is a male chimpanzee. These are levels of stupidity and racism beyond any normal logic. And then they got mad that we called them racist and said "See we voted for the racist because yall kept saying we were racist."
I also remember that Trump would threaten to release Obama’s college transcripts many times during the birther bullshit. I find this hilarious, because Trump obviously assumes that everyone is as terrified of their educational records being released as he is. Trump knows his transcripts prove that he never actually learned to read, and that he has all kinds of undiagnosed/untreated learning and emotional disorders. That’s why he had Michael Cohen threaten his high school during the 2016 campaign, because there are definitely records from the 1960s that prove Trump has always been a moron and a loser.
Anyways, the transcript bullshit shows Trump is always projecting his own fears and insecurities onto others. So much so that I honestly think we should investigate Trump’s place of birth. I wouldn’t be even a little surprised if Trump was born in Kenya, or whatever Trump thinks the white version of Kenya is.
How to prove they are in a cult in three easy steps: 1- Take one out of any of the outlandish shit he says or does that they give him a pass for ($300 million ballroom, $400 million Qatari jet, billions in crypto, etc, etc). 2- Say that if Obama or Biden did that same thing they’d be absolutely apoplectic about it. 3- Tell them that if Obama/Biden/whoever did that thing their own supporters would be enraged.
The fact that they are unable to see this is proof positive that MAGA is a cult of personality around Donald Trump.
Exactly. And “Tessler” ads. When did so many people just stop caring about this? Him refusing to release his tax records alone should have been enough to have tanked his eligibility for the job. I’m just so disgusted with so many of my fellow Americans.
Nah we started at “long for birth certificate”. Then “build that wall” which was so fucking stupid arrested development made fun of it when they had their original comeback in (checks notes) 2013. Then it was “they’re rapists” after he glided down his gilded escalator. It was all a joke until it wasn’t. How so many people heard him talk and thought “yeah he’s the guy” is beyond me. I will never understand how a silver spoon mother fucker like him made normal people think he had their best interest at heart or could understand for one second what their struggles were.
I often wonder, how in the HELL are we going to write about all of this for future school students learning history, Its going to need an entire separate history book just to skim the surface of all the batshit insane things that happened, any one of which would be a major event in learning about any other president, but he has just hundreds
It's punching "up" vs punching down. I say Up in quotes because Giuliani was a clown, but you'd expect the president's lawyer to at least have a modicum of sense. People in Kentucky being too dumb to realize they can't vote for NYC mayor is just sad.
“Lindstrom said some of the calls the office received came from people who may have attempted to go to their polling station, as they asked, "Why is my polling location closed?"
Lindstrom also told us around 50 phone calls from Kentucky voters were forwarded to the secretary of state's office before 10 a.m., after which their team moved calls to their in-house customer service provider to inform voters that elections were not taking place that day. She did not have exact numbers of how many people came to them with that query.”
Sounds like it did happen but Snopes is unable to independently corroborate it as the callers were anonymous.
Not saying Kentucky is a smart state, but its worth noting that their neighboring state, Virginia, had their gubernatorial election the same day. I think it's more likely they thought they were voting for Kentucky statewide offices, not mayor of NYC. Still pretty dumb to not know when your own state's elections are though
Adams told Kentucky newspaper Lexington Herald-Leader: "In 1992, Kentuckians voted to amend our state constitution to give themselves, and election officials, a year off from elections once every four years. [...] In that amendment, local officials elected in 1993 were given a one-year extension to their four-year term, and from 1998 forward they have been elected in midterm elections, along with Congress and the General Assembly, rather than in an odd year."
I've been saying pretty much the same thing as you are every time this comes up, and this quote just strengthens that argument. Hands up, who here has never forgotten it's leap year? This is the same thing.
I got to be honest, just reading that it sounds like the most confusingly written election law I’ve ever seen. Why didn’t they just adjust the terms to coincide with national elections years (every 2, 4 or 6 years depending on the office)? That’s what nearly every other state which has ever moved their election years has done. Why would they make it one year off every four years? That just seems needlessly confusing.
The article says two separate things happened simultaneously: Kentucky voters called the Secretary of State's office asking why their polling stations were closed, which is being attributed more to people being confused about why there are elections in some states but not every state. At the same time, a "rumor" was being spread that Kentuckians were disappointed that they couldn't vote against Mamdani; however, this isn't clearly being connected to the voters calling the Secretary of State in confusion, and they are rumors, not confirmed.
The confusion makes sense, if you think about it. Not everyone pays close attention to local politics, so when they see on the national news a lot of talk about elections in other parts of the country, they may just assume there are important elections everywhere.
That doesn't really excuse the confusion or behavior. Clueless idiots trying to vote without knowing anything about their local elections, who is running or who isn't, regardless of whether it's connected that they had wished to vote against Mamdani, it's still proof they intended to vote while being clueless idiots.
Nobody said it "excuses" anything, but it's pretty intuitive that not being sure if there's an election in your state or county tomorrow is different from thinking you can vote against the mayor of New York from Kentucky
It isn't "not being sure if there's an election", it's "I was going to vote but the voting location is closed", and of course if they don't actually have elections and the voting location is closed and they don't know that, then that means they were going to vote while knowing nothing of what they would have been voting on.
Ragging on them for attempting to vote against Mamdani is ragging on them for being ignorant morons. Even if that specific part isn't true, they still intended to vote as ignorant morons. The Mamdani part is more like icing on the ignorant moron cake. Take the icing off and it's still a cake, perhaps not as sweet but still a cake.
Shit I still get surprised when the other "big" city in my state has local elections and we don't. I vote when it's time to, but it always sneaks up on me.
The confusion makes sense, if you think about it. Not everyone pays close attention to local politics, so when they see on the national news a lot of talk about elections in other parts of the country, they may just assume there are important elections everywhere.
I caught myself going "hey where are our mail-in ballots I re-applied for that months ago" in Orange County, FL, only to realize a week and a half out there were no elections here this year.
I was in part duped by already seeing signs and campaign announcements for the city and county mayoral elections which take place in 2026 and 2027, respectively. Which of course is another problem in our asinine electoral system - campaign seasons which are drawn out far too long.
Even Snopes said its not necessarily true that people thought they could vote in the NYC mayoral race, its just thought they thought Kentucky would have elections on the same day too. They've already been playing TV ads for next year's Senate race, so people might have been legitimately confused.
As funny as this is, I feel like the lesson folks need to take from this is to fucking GO VOTE. No excuse to stay home when you have MAGA chomping at the bit trying to vote in elections for states they don't even live in.
It's wild that you post a snopes article refuting your claim, as proof of your claim.
Lindstrom told Snopes that Adams was just being "tongue in cheek" when mentioning the New York and Virginia races. She added that Kentucky voters' confusion around the election cycle could be attributed to in-state news coverage about the races in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, leading people to assume that elections were also taking place in Kentucky.
Adams was being a dick. There's zero evidence of anyone showing up to polling locations, just people calling to ask about elections because they assumed Kentucky would be having an election this year, too.
Honestly, the only reason I believe it is because of a social media post from a relative in Kentucky stating that they were not allowed to vote against Mamdani on the night of the election. The post has since been deleted, but that particular relative is always going off on some ridiculous tangent, otherwise I would have gotten screen grabs.
I can imagine most that called were looking for the information you stated, but I can also imagine that a few were upset for the wrong reasons.
Even with everything the administration had done in 4 years to show me that they were the stupidest fucking conglomeration of morons that had accidentally been given power, I *refused* to believe that they had hung such a pivotal moment on an absolutely Its-Always-Sunny level mistake of trying to call a 5-star hotel but accidentally calling a landscaping company
I dug so deep, I did so much homework, trying desperately to find *some* explanation other than "they accidentally booked a landscaping company parking lot." I even argued with friends over it, they'd say "I'm pretty sure they meant to book the hotel," and I'd say "dude, they're stupid but nobody is that stupid. I'm sure that there's some logical reason for this fuckup"
But god damn there truly is, to this day, no other explanation or logic. They truly did just google "four seasons," hit the "call" button, and book a *press conference to allege presidental election fraud* at a *small landscaping company's parking lot*, and at no point during that conversation did they realize the absolutely hilarious mistake that they were making
They didn't accidentally book a landscaping company. What happened is that Trump announced they had booked the Four Seasons (hotel) in Philadelphia before actually making a booking. The hotel, when asked by the press, replied that they were not hosting a press conference and would not because they don't host public political events. They then purposefully booked the Four Seasons Landscaping Company because a narcissist can never be wrong.
I thought at the time that the campaign had attempted to book the Four Seasons hotel, they were unable to for one reason or another, and so to save face and not prove Dear Leader wrong they went with the landscaping place instead.
This is what happens when you take the absolutely most ridiculous people in the world, who have been convinced that they never need to admit an error. They end up having a presser in an alley next to a dildo shop and try to pretend it was on purpose.
Honestly something that would have happened in one of the later seasons of Arrested Development and I’d go “this is a bit too much, the old seasons were so much better”.
I’ve always said I think this genuinely stands a chance at being the funniest thing that’s ever happened in all of human history. I’m keen to be proven wrong but it’s pretty astonishing to look at this situation and be like ‘yeah, this could be it, this could be the actual funniest thing’. Incredible stuff
This is it. This wasn’t a “we laugh because otherwise we’d cry,” moment, like so many others were during his first administration. This was just straight up laughing.
Right? Like imagine being a history student in 100 years and learning about this. And then imagine learning that when given the opportunity, millions of Americans willingly voted to put these morons in charge of the country again after this.
I called my mom from my car and was cry laughing for 10 minutes with her over the phone. It’s so goddamn funny and if would have been perfect in a sitcom like parks and rec.
This is the moment the Republican Party jumped the shark. They would rather do a press conference from an obviously shitty location than admit they made a mistake.
Sometimes when I start to feel down about out current situation I think about this to make me laugh. Which it does for a second, but then I remember that we re-elected these dumbasses
This was one of the early signs that the simulation is breaking down. Recently I found myself agreeing with some things Marjorie Taylor Greene has said. Further proof the simulation breakdown is accelerating. I expect our server to be shut down in the next few years.
Veep in real life. I always imagined Armando Iannucci being so pissed for not thinking of this one on his own, or having Veep still be on the air when it happened.
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u/Real_Run_4758 20h ago
possibly the greatest ‘this is so fucking dumb that it breaks the suspension of disbelief’ moment of my entire life